reddit becomes multilingual

I’ve been looking forward to announcing this feature ever since we first started drawing up plans for reddit in Steve’s notebook.

Over the months (and as recently as yesterday), we’ve gotten requests for reddits in a number of languages, but subreddits now make this possible (using language codes as subdomains, a la wikipedia). Translating the interface is the next step, but for now, you can read/submit/share links written in your preferred langauge(s) through the english UI. Based on requests, we’ve started with chinese (zh.reddit.com), french (fr.reddit.com), german (de.reddit.com), japanese (ja.reddit.com), korean (ko.reddit.com), and spanish (es.reddit.com), but we’re going to continue adding new languages as you request them. For instance, we’ll roll out norwegian reddit as soon as you let us know which form you’d prefer. (On a side note: the idea that someone in Oslo [or anywhere across the globe] would be using reddit in his/her native tongue is just too cool).

If you’d like a reddit in your language, please email us with the request and we’ll get it online. All we ask is that you tell all of your [insert language]-speaking friends about it (and that you let us know if we screw something up in translation). We’ll also be quite pleased if you can translate “happy redditing.”